SQL Server to scale into hundreds of terabytes of data by using DATAllegrohttp://sqlblog.com/blogs/denis_gobo/archive/2008/09/16/8916.aspxMicrosoft just released an interesting press release: Microsoft Closes Acquisition of DATAllegro The important stuff from this press release: Microsoft will offer a new solution based on DATAllegro’s technology that extends Microsoft SQL Server to scaleenCommunityServer 2.1 SP2 (Build: 61129.1)re: SQL Server to scale into hundreds of terabytes of data by using DATAllegrohttp://sqlblog.com/blogs/denis_gobo/archive/2008/09/16/8916.aspx#8940Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:14:57 GMT21093a07-8b3d-42db-8cbf-3350fcbf5496:8940jchang<p>Is this extending SQL Server, or replacing SQL Server with the Ingres/Linux/USN platform? So what is the MS plan going forward, keep DATAllegro Ingrs/Linux? Can USN be adapted to SQL Server? Will there be a special buil for DW, where the complex lock levels and logging in a transactional engine are diabled? Supposedly column storage is vastly faster than row storage.</p>